The inspiration for tech titan Jack Ma's Alibaba was an implausible politician :

The Alibaba organizer told correspondents on Monday of how superior Minister Mahathir Mohamad's devices to point Malaysia's assets into a high-tech interest meeting point had obsessed him to launch a digital problem intended at equally revolutionizing China's tech scene. Ma thought the opinion had dawned on him 20 existence in the past at what time he look at in a newspaper about Mahathir's "Multimedia Super Corridor," or MSC — share of an agenda to renovate the country. "My inspiration came from the MSC," Ma believed on a pay a visit to Putrajaya, a capital really outside of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. "So, Malaysia inspired me on Alibaba and this morning I be grateful [the chief minister] for his magnificent inspiration for MSC."

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